About the Artist
Keo announce their debut album Put A Smile On For Me, arriving Friday September 25 via Mushroom Music, alongside their explosive opening single 'That's Me,' out now. Accompanying the single is a dark, surreal video directed by long-time collaborator Hermione Sylvester, tracing a lonely man’s search for connection through a world marked by isolation and longing. With its dreamlike unease and grainy intensity, the video expands the psychological tension at the centre of ‘That’s Me.'
Written and recorded during an intense ten-day period, Put A Smile On For Me emerged from what frontman Finn Keogh describes as a convergence of “personal chaos”: self-examination and the slow unravelling that comes from recognising parts of yourself you’d rather avoid. Self-produced by Finn alongside guitarist Jimmy Lanwern and shaped by the immediacy of its original demos, the album resists polish in favour of honesty, preserving every fracture, every ugly thought, and every bruise exactly as it first surfaced.
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